Proceeds will be used to design and build backyard playgrounds at ACC’s Brooklyn and Manhattan Care centers, which will give the shelter dogs the chance to play and exercise as they wait to find their forever homes.

ACC is legally obligated to take in every single animal that comes into the shelters. That’s more than 30,000 each year, an astoundingly high number. Find out how you can help NYC’s shelter animals at www.NYCACC.org.

Check out Susan interviewing Whoopi Goldberg, Victoria Stilwell, Clinton Kelly and others at the American Humane Association Gala honoring 9/11 Search and Rescue Dogs at the National Arts Club in Manhattan, 9/8/2011.